Animal Farm Animal Farm, a satirical book by George Orwell, compares the life of farm animals to the lives of people living under fascist regimes. Many of the animals, who are characters in the book, directly parallel individuals or groups in fascist Italy and Germany or in the communist Soviet Union. Following the example of the real world, the animals wish to change the negative conditions of their lives, but instead create a new, even worse regime lead by the very animals who they trusted. This
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The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a citizen of Oceania, one of their world’s three superstates along with Eurasia and Eastasia. It is the year 1984 and Winston lives in a place called Airstipe One, which used to be known as Great Britain. Winston is a member of the Party that rules Oceania under the principles of Ingsoc (English Socialism). Winston has never quite accepted the principles of Ingsoc and the Party. He believes in an unalterable past and wishes for privacy, love, and freedom, but
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Rats are often portrayed as dingy disgusting creatures aligned with fear as well as betrayal and it is no different in George Orwell’s nineteen eighty-four. Winston’s fear of rats is constantly overwhelming for him, not to mention that rats appear almost foreshadowing betrayal and lastly rats represent the extent of the control the party possesses over the population of Oceania. Orwell explores then many diverse ways rats can influence the characters in the novel. Betrayal: The expression that someone
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it symbolize public appearance, it also symbolize the vagueness with which the higher ranks of the party present themselves. Which makes Winston think who really rules Oceania, if Big Brother exist, if the government is telling them the truth. George Orwell uses
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Brainwashing in Brave New World In today’s twenty-first century society, citizens appear to be fairly content with life. They have a materialistic mindset and possesses a false faith in the government. In his novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a world with a hidden uncanny resemblance to today’s society. The motif of Brainwashing is used by the government in several forms throughout the read, such as drugs, hypnotism and physical torture, to manipulate the public. The World State in
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In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Bernard Marx’s character is established as an individual seeking social acceptance, yet one who is also confined by society’s expectations. Though he resists society initially, underlying his strained unorthodox ways and perceived rejection of social norms is a man who ultimately needs to be accepted. Huxley shows readers the multifaceted sides of Bernard’s journey towards acceptance, while also creating a utopia-like world. Initially, Bernard is a character
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George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty Four, uses various motifs to help him convey his message. Orwell gives one particular simple household article symbolic significance, in order to develop a theme which is important to him. The specific object which Orwell uses as a motif, is a beautiful glass paperweight. For the novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith, this paperweight represents both beauty without purpose, as well as ongoing hope for the reclamation of his happier, liberated past, and a
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Reading the two novels, We and Brave New World, the reader is educated about the possible future of our society. Both book’s idea of a perfect utopia may sound a little extreme, however. Looking at today’s society, it is possible. We already have shock therapy for psychiatric patients, so using it for babies could possibly happen. Between reading We and Brave New World, I can see what rules are beneficial to its citizens and what is not. In the novel We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, the main goal was to
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Animal Farm is a historical novel, set in England but dealing with the events leading up to and after the Russian Revolution of 1917. It illustrates the idea expressed by Lord Acton that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This abuse of power can be demonstrated by studying Napoleon’s actions in the book(Alex K.). In this essay, comparisons include the character Napolean and how he relates to Korean dictator, Kim
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“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.” This quote, taken from Animal Farm, an allegory written by George Orwell, shows that if people aren’t educated then they can’t fight back against their government. This is the case in Animal Farm, where a pig by the name of Napoleon, took rule of Animal Farm, after overthrowing the previous leader, a human, and eliminating his only other competition, a pig called Snowball. The pigs in Animal Farm were the only animals
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